Friday social notes and notices from the Journal office
Friday avas payday on the Mis Soluri Pacific calendar social at Mrs Sigsbees Friday evening Jan 31st Ola papers for salé at the JOURS NaL office 5¢a bundle a big bundle. The Journal reports a piano contest in Kansas City World. Subscriptions to daily papers may be paid at the Journal office. Rural Route envelopes sold 50 cents. A. J. Riley offers bounties for hens roosters turkeys Feb 3 4 and 5. The bill raising rural mail carriers pay to 600 a year passed the House. The court room has just been carpeted and the Telescope jokes about tobacco juice in the aisle.
Populist County Convention and Primaries Planned
A Populist county convention will be held at the courthouse on Saturday February 8 with delegates from Scandia 7 White Rock 4 Union 8 Norway 6 Lincoln’s Courtland 8 Beaver 5. Primaries will be held on Thursday February 6.
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Scandia Township
White Rock
Union
Norway
Lincolln’s
Courtland
Beaver
Proxy Substitutes in Imperial China Exposed by Traveler
A missionary describes China as the paradise of proxies where exams poems or even death can be endured by stand-ins. He cites Pekin civil service exams where Ti Hoa substitutes pay to submit papers and court pleaders use proxies. The practice extends to death penalties with substitutes often serving wealthy or powerful interests, while the real victims are poor citizens.
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China
Orient
Pekin
Krow
Territorial and State Governors of Kansas List
The article lists territorial governors and terms from 1854 onward, naming Andrew H. Reeder Daniel Woodson Wilson Shannon and others, plus later state governors like Charles Robinson Thomas Carney Crawford Green Harvey Osborn Anthony St John Glick Martin Stumphrey Lewelling Morrill Leedy Stanley with service dates and acting roles.
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Kansas
Andrew MH. Reeder
Pennsylvania
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Daniel Woodson
Virginia
Wilson Shannon
W. Geary
Mareh! le
Prederick Pe Stanton
Robert Aly Walker
Mississippi
J James W. Denver
California
Hughs. Walsh
Boro
New Winsor
Orange County
N. Y
Alabama
Meeretar
Anu
Samuel Medary
George M. Beebe
New Vernon
Firimm
Charles Robinson
S. J. Crawford
Tadee
Nehimiah Green
Crawford James M. Harvey
Thomas A. Osborn
Geo. T.anthony
John P. St. John
George W. Glick
John A. Martin
Lyman U. Stumphrey
Lorenzo D. Lewelling
Edmund N. Morrill
John W. Leedy
William B. Stanley
The Mother's Favorite Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Ad
The Mother's Favorite claims Chamberlain's cough remedy is pleasant and safe for children. It targets coughs croup and whooping cough and contains no opium or injurious drug. Sold by Happ er the Druggist.
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Chamberlain's
Happérthe Druggist
Aluminum Conductors Seen As Power Transmission Gain
Lord Kelvin lauds aluminum for overhead and underground transmission noting its half copper weight and higher insulation costs while warning of oxidation and weather effects. Cassier's Magazine cites high conductivity and lower post load, with painting or varnishing proposed to protect exposed conductors.
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Lord Kelvin
Cassier’s
Oil from Waste Turns Tide for Yorkshire Weavers
A French chemist, visiting Yorkshire, bought up soap suds from wool mills to extract fat. He set up vats and acid separation, producing lubricating oil from the recovered fat. The process, long seen as waste, funded a fortune by diverting suds from the sea.
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Yorkshire
Hagland
Yorkshire Ten
Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Ad
If troubled with a weak digestion belching sour stomach or feel dull after eating try Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets. Price 25 cents samples free at Mappers drug store.
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Chamberlain
Mappers Drug Store
Notes of the Notables and World Figures
A digest of remarks on biblical seers epileptic visions, Professor Fewkes returning from New Mexico seeking Pueblo ties with Mexico, Youssoupoff diamonds valued at 2.5 million rubles held at Arkhangelsk and Youssoupoff Palace, Boston mayoral rivals Hart Lincoln and Quincy each running seven times, Sir Francis Grenfell’s wealth and private drive, Menelik of Abyssinia as a rival to the German Kaiser, and his Addis Ababa palace plans and public-building projects.
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Thomas L. Brunton
Walter Fewkes
Bureau of Ethnology
New Mexico
Mexico
Prince Yousupoff
Europe
Arkangelsk
Moscow
Yousupoff
Boston
Hart
Lincoln
Josiah Quincy
Francis Grenfell
Malta
Mioney
Menelik
Abyssinia
Addis Ababa
Colored Methodist Bishop to Lead Transvaal Church
Rev. L. J. Coppin, colored, of Philadelphia, elected bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Transvaal, plans to sail for Africa next January. Fundraising aims total $20,000 to establish a conference and begin college work upon arrival. Coppin, about 85, is a Philadelphia native and Protestant Episcopal Divinity School graduate.
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L. J. Coppin
Philadelphia
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Transvaal
Africa
Bishop Coppin
The
Protestant Episcopal Divinity School
Chicago Woman Praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Prominent Chicago woman and Illinois Woman's Alliance vice president Roxa Tyler credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with curing her severe cold that threatened pneumonia. She says other remedies failed, stomach upset occurred, and she now fully recovered after using the chest medicine. Sold by the local druggist Harper.
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Happer
White's Dramam Vermefuge Advertised by A J White
An old advertisement touts White's Dramam Vermefuge claimed to strengthen the fragile babe and growing child by destroying worms aiding digestion and rebuilding the body. Price is 25 cents. Sold by A J White, druggist.
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